Chapter Seven Wise Masters to Shatton of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

feet; having done so, he will tell you the hour correctly. A workman earnestly desires his shadow, which indicates the time of leaving off work.

Shadow (To). To follow about like a shadow. This is done by some person or persons appointed to watch the movements and keep au fait with the doings of suspicious characters.

“He [Jesus] was shadowed by spies, who were stirring up the crowd against Him.” - Longman's Magazine, 1891, p. 238.

Shady On the shady side of forty - the wrong side, meaning more than forty. As evening approaches the shadows lengthen, and as man advances towards the evening of life he approaches the shady side thereof. As the beauty of the day is gone when the sun declines, the word shady means inferior, bad, etc.; as, a shady character, one that will not bear the light; a shady transaction, etc.

Shafalus So Bottom the weaver and Francis Flute the bellows-mender, call Cephalus, the husband of Procris.

“Pyramus: Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true.
Thisbe: As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you.”
Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, v. 1.

Shafites (2 syl.). One of the four sects of the Sunnites or orthodox Moslems; so called from Al-Shafei, a descendant of Mahomet. (See Shites.)

Shaft I will make either a shaft or bolt of it. I will apply it to one use or another. The bolt was the crossbow arrow, the shaft was the arrow of the long-bow.

Shatton (Sir Piercie). In this character Sir Walter Scott has made familiar to us the euphuisms of Queen Elizabeth's age. The fashionable cavalier or pedantic fop, who assumes the high-flown style rendered fashionable by Lyly, was grandson of old Overstitch the tailor. (Sir Walter Scott: Monastery.)